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2. Frederick McKinley Jones - Wikipedia

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   [17] [18] Portable cooling units designed by Jones were especially important during World War II, preserving blood, medicine, and food for use at army hospitals and on open battlefields. Model C units were manufactured for military use, following the war the units became available for commercial use. [17]

3. Evaporative cooler - Wikipedia

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   An Egyptian qullah, set in drafts to cool interiors. Porous pottery and coarse cloth maximize the area for evaporation. An evaporative cooler (also known as evaporative air conditioner, swamp cooler, swamp box, desert cooler and wet air cooler) is a device that cools air through the evaporation of water.

4. Thermo King - Wikipedia

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   Jones designed a portable air-cooling unit for trucks carrying perishable food, [3] for which they had obtained a patent on July 12, 1940, [4] subsequent to a challenge to invent a refrigerated truck over a golf game by associates of Numero's, Werner Transportation Co.'s President Harry Werner, and United States Air Conditioning Co.'s President ...

5. Air conditioning - Wikipedia

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   A portable system has an indoor unit on wheels connected to an outdoor unit via flexible pipes, similar to a permanently fixed installed unit (such as a ductless split air conditioner). Hose systems, which can be monoblock or air-to-air, are vented to the outside via air ducts.

6. Thermoelectric cooling - Wikipedia

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   Thermoelectric cooling uses the Peltier effect to create a heat flux at the junction of two different types of materials. A Peltier cooler, heater, or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the device to the other, with consumption of electrical energy, depending on the direction of the current.

7. This Best-Selling Portable Cooling Fan a ‘Life Saver’—and It ...

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   It’s portable, effective, and essential in battling heat wave fatigue. The Jisulife Handheld Mini Fan is nearly half-off ahead of Amazon Prime Day. It’s portable, effective, and essential in ...